Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a beautiful planet called Earth.  This tiny little planet, in a star system known as the Milky Way Galaxy, was unlike any other planet in the universe.  It was the third planet out revolving around a new sun.  The composition of air, light and water on this planet made its appearance exceptionally spectacular.  All the colors of the rainbow sparkled brightly from its surface.  In a universe full of dying stars, cold barren planets, and hot barren planets, this tiny new planet stood alone in its composition and winked at the universe with its newly opened eyes.

God and Goddess looked at the planet with wonder.  "How can we nurture this planet in its uniqueness?" they wondered.  As it was like no other planet they had created, they decided to bless it with a special gift, balance.  Instead of allowing it to exist alone, they blessed it with life.  Life, they determined, would consist of a series of two, which when combined made a third new and unique offspring. So they filled the land, seas and air with life pairs.  These pairs, in turn, gave birth to offspring, which also paired, mated and reproduced.  God and  Goddess saw that it was good.

As time passed, God and Goddess watched the Earth.  Life, it seemed, could procreate more life, but to what purpose?  The land and seas were filled with everything necessary to sustain life for eternity, but there was nothing to appreciate their precious gift, as no creature of their making was aware of its own existence.

"We will make a new life pair," they decided.  This pair would be given the gift of consciousness.  This pair would be created to know, as they knew, how very unique and special the planet Earth was.  Unfortunately, neither God nor Goddess was willing to compromise on their vision of what this new life pair would look like.  One wanted to create a light skinned being, with hair like the sun and eyes that reflected the sea and the sky.  The other wanted to create a dark skinned being with dark hair and dark eyes that would connect with the earth for which they were made. 

In order to maintain the precious balance on their new planet, they created two new life pairs.  One pair would have blonde hair, light skin and blue eyes and be dominated by the male.  The other pair would have dark skin, hair and eyes and would be dominated by the female.  Each pair would be created apart from the other, so that there would be no disagreement over territory or superiority.

The light pair was created in the cool mountains of the north.  The dark pair was created in the lush gardens of the south.  Each pair procreated, as did their offspring and their offspring's offspring until the mountains and the gardens were filled with people.  The people of the earth were happy and thankful to God and Goddess for their existence. 

As each clan grew, they moved further and further away from their original homeland.  Each clan had its own experiences and had developed within the confines of its region.  However that special gift of procreation soon made it necessary to move beyond the lands they had each known.  Both clans were bound by water to the west, so they traveled east, towards the rising sun.  The mountain clan migrated southward as they came to understand that warmer lands awaited in that direction.  The garden clans traveled northward, toward the cool, arid deserts that resembled their homelands.  It was inevitable that these two species would meet in the middle. God and Goddess had not considered what would happen when these two species of beings, identical except for their outer appearance, met one another. 

In a fertile valley that lay between the two clans, that meeting finally took place.   As human nature was still in its infancy, there was no prejudice.  The clans embraced one another and for a time there was peace in the valley.  Mountain people paired with desert people and procreation continued. The resulting mesh of light and dark created yet another new and beautiful golden skinned people.  This resulting new species of humanity had the advantages of sharing the knowledge of both cultures, and thus flourished much faster than the two separate clans.

Moving ever eastward, the golden children soon populated all the lands of the earth.  The original mountain people remained in the north and the original garden people stayed in the rainforests, however their many generations of golden children would travel across all stretches of land until they found themselves bound once again by water, this time on the eastern shores.

Sadly, peace could not reign on the beautiful planet, because it had been blessed with balance.  Both sides of the scale had to have weight in order to maintain balance.  The resulting measure was called war.  God and Goddess were not pleased with this outcome, but understood its necessity.  So, the male dominated species fought with the female dominated species and sides were chosen.  The fighting was worst in the fertile valley where the two clans had met.

“There must be a better way to balance our beautiful planet!” God and Goddess mused. Until a new counterweight to peace could be determined, they decided to separate the clans again.  They chose to flood the fertile valley until a new solution could be found, and the people of the region fled outward seeking shelter and safety.  However, when the waters receded, the golden children were anxious to return to their homelands.  When they arrived to find other golden children already occupying what they considered “their” lands, war broke out again.

God and Goddess still had not come up with a new counterweight to peace.  “I will go to the planet and interact with our children,” Goddess decided.  She hoped to find a solution to their problem in the land and seas and skies they had created.   God stayed behind and observed from afar.

So Goddess descended upon the earth.  She did not take human form, but manifested herself in the trees of the garden.  Many years passed, and yet Goddess still found no solution to keep her children from war.  Some of the peoples of the earth began to notice her presence in little things – there was harmony in her presence, and so some of the people began to worship her and named her Mother Nature.

God, however, was not sitting idle.  He decided to transcend the dead souls of his children to a place where he could interact with them as well.  To his frustration, he was unable to obtain any information from them that helped him solve the problem of war. “I will go to the planet myself,” he decided.    God descended upon a mountain top and spoke to the first man he came across. He gave the man a tablet, upon which he wrote some basic principals of harmony in human life. “There,” he thought. “Now my children know my desires for harmony amongst them and will solve this problem themselves.” For many years there was peace in the valley as the people followed the teachings of God.

When many more years had past, and humanity had begun its sprawl again, war broke out again.

God returned to earth once more, still searching for the answer to balance that did not include war.  He spoke to his children like a father and admonished them to live in harmony.  Some of his golden children were fascinated with man who was God.  Many conversations were held, and scribes compiled the knowledge they had learned for future reference.  He had tried to teach his children about harmony, but they were filled with free will and many rejected his teachings.  Unable to maintain only peace on earth, God returned home once more.

Still, many of the golden children were saddened by the loss of their friend and mentor.  They sought to communicate with him. Small tribes of peaceful peoples rejected the premises of war and continued to search for answers that would return their beautiful earth to a harmonious state.  They remembered God and honored his teachings.  They taught their own children about him.

Outside the fertile valley, humanity was progressing differently.  Without the knowledge and technology of the mountain people, the earth children kept to the old ways.  The golden children that had traveled outside the fertile valley also adapted to lands with more peace than war. With smaller populations and more land to conquer, theirs was a life with less conflict.  The people were happy and their children grew to become parents without direct knowledge of God, or the wars in the fertile valley. Their existence, it seemed, balanced out the death and destruction of their distant kin.

Goddess was pleased.  She now understood that her children had indeed provided the necessary balance to war.  God was pleased, as his children knew not only of their own existence, but of his as well.  Goddess decided to stay upon the earth, as God had returned to the heavens, to balance the scales even further.

To this day, you can still find evidence of Goddess in the gardens and God in the heavens.  Peoples of all tribes of the earth still worship God and Goddess.  The sparkling little planet in the middle of the universe has become the creation they both designed and flourished under their nurturing care.